Brenda Cullerton (born April 11, 1952) is an American author, fashion writer and creative consultant. Her first novel, The Craigslist Murders, was published by Melville International Crime in 2011. Inspired by her experience furnishing an entire house from finds on the List, the book is currently held in more than 240 libraries.
Cullerton was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. She received an Associate degree from Bard College at Simon's Rock, and finished her BA degree in English literature at New York University.
Cullerton began her career as a copywriter at Grey Advertising and continued to work as a freelance concept and content strategist for brands including Vogue, Donna Karan, Eileen Fisher, Aveda, Bergdorf Goodman, and others.
Cullerton has written editorials, mostly in the area of fashion and design, and is the author of six books. Her memoir, The Nearly Departed or My Family & Other Foreigners, was published by Little Brown in 2003. [1] [2] She wrote a biography of American fashion designer, Geoffrey Beene, and this was followed by several books on interiors and the home, all published by Harry Abrams.
Cullerton's one-woman-show, Jay Z and Me: A fast talking memoir, [3] debuted at the Solo Voce Estrogenious festival in New York City on October 13, 2013. It was later performed at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, [4] The Merchant House in Amsterdam and various other New York venues.
Brenda Cullerton lives and works in New York City with her husband, Richard DeLigter, [5] a television director and the founder of Real Productions, Inc. She has two children.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies. In addition, beginning in the 1960s, she published numerous popular mystery novels with a woman protagonist, under the pen name of Amanda Cross. These have been translated into numerous languages and in total sold nearly one million copies worldwide.
Thomas Jacob Hilfiger is an American fashion designer and founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation.
Robert Lee Morris is a jewelry designer and sculptor who attributes much of his inspiration to forms he admires in nature. His designs have been made in gold, silver and bronze and he is known for his 24 carat matte gold plating and rich deep red copper and green patina. He has collaborated or designed collections for fashion designers Geoffrey Beene, Kansai Yamamoto, Calvin Klein, Anne Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Michael Kors and Donna Karan.
Laura Jacobs is a novelist, journalist, and critic. Jacobs is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, where she reviews museum exhibitions on fashion. A staff writer at Vanity Fair since 1995, she has written award-winning pieces for the magazine on the subjects of design, fashion, and the performing arts.
Susanne Antonetta is the pen name of Suzanne Paola, an American poet and author who is most widely known for her book Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir (ISBN 1-58243-116-7). In 2001, Body Toxic received recognition as a 'Notable Book' from the New York Times. An excerpt of "Body Toxic" was published as a stand-alone essay which was recognized as a 'Notable Essay' in the 1998 Best American Essays 1998 anthology. She has published several prize-winning collections of poems, including Bardo, a Brittingham Prize in Poetry winner, and the poetry books Petitioner, Glass, and most recently The Lives of The Saints. She currently resides in Washington with her husband and adopted son. She is widely published both in newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as in literary journals including Orion, Brevity, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, Seneca Review, and Image. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of Bellingham Review.
Women's Wear Daily is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called "the bible of fashion". WWD delivers information and intelligence on changing trends and breaking news in the men and women's fashion, beauty and retail industries with a readership composed largely of retailers, designers, manufacturers, marketers, financiers, media executives, advertising agencies, socialites and trend makers. It is the flagship publication of Fairchild Fashion Media, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation. James Fallon is the editorial director of Fairchild Fashion and the publisher of WWD is Paul Jowdy. Its editor-in-chief is Miles Socha. The final newsprint edition of WWD was printed on April 24, 2015 as the paper switched to a digital daily format and a weekly print edition was launched on April 29, 2015.
Kathryn Harrison is an American author. She has published seven novels, two memoirs, two collections of personal essays, a travelogue, two biographies, and a book of true crime. She reviews regularly for The New York Times Book Review.
The Murder Room is a 2003 detective novel and the 12th in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P. D. James. It takes place in London, particularly the Dupayne Museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath in the London Borough of Camden.
Clara Callan is a novel by Canadian writer Richard B. Wright, published in 2001. It is the story of a woman in her thirties living in Ontario during the 1930s and is written in epistolary form, utilizing letters and journal entries to tell the story. The protagonist, Clara, faces the struggles of being a single woman in a rural community in the early 20th century. The novel won the Governor General's Award in English fiction category, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Trillium Book Award.
James Winston Brady was an American celebrity columnist who created the Page Six gossip column in the New York Post and W magazine; he wrote the In Step With column in Parade for nearly 25 years until his death. He wrote several books related to war, particularly the Korean War, in which he served as a United States Marine Corps officer.
Internet homicide refers to killing in which victim and perpetrator met online, in some cases having known each other previously only through the Internet. Also Internet killer is an appellation found in media reports for a person who broadcasts the crime of murder online or who murders a victim met through the Internet. The first known murder of a victim met online was in 1996. Depending on the venue used, other terms used in the media are Internet chat room killer, Craigslist killer, Facebook serial killer. Internet homicide can also be part of an Internet suicide pact or consensual homicide. Some commentators believe that reports on these homicides have overemphasized their connection to the Internet.
Elle Fowler and Blair Fowler are sisters who posted beauty and style-related tutorials on YouTube as AllThatGlitters21 (Elle) and juicystar07 (Blair). Elle came into the beauty and fashion world during the summer of 2008 and convinced Blair to join her. Their videos of makeup tutorials and clothing hauls quickly garnered a large audience and rose in popularity. As of August 2017, Elle's videos on AllThatGlitters21 have been viewed more than 180 million times, while Blair's channel juicystar07 has received over 270 million views.
Jillian Lauren is an American writer, performer, adoption advocate, and former call girl for Jefri Bolkiah, Prince of Brunei; about whom she wrote her first memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem.
Cea Sunrise Person is a writer and former model best known as the author of North of Normal, a 2014 memoir detailing her rustic upbringing in the wilderness of Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
May-lee Chai is an American author of fiction and nonfiction.
Nina MacLaughlin is an American writer. Her memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, discusses her decision to restart her career. MacLaughlin's work has also been published in Boston Magazine, LA Review of Books,Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast and The Boston Globe. She was also recognized in Refiner29's list of "21 New Authors You Need to Know."
Dick Lehr is an American author, journalist and a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is known for co-authoring The New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil’s Deal, and its sequel, Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss with fellow journalist Gerard O'Neill.
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me is a 2017 memoir by Janet Mock.
Julia Angwin is an investigative journalist, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Markup. She was a senior reporter at ProPublica until April 2018 and staff reporter at the New York bureau of The Wall Street Journal from 2000 to 2013. Angwin is author of non-fiction books, Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (2009) and Dragnet Nation (2014).
Betty Halbreich is an American personal shopper, stylist, and author known for her career at the New York luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman, where she serves as Director of Solutions. Her 2015 memoir, titled I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist, was featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.
